Engraved French and Indian War Period Powder Horn

Description:

Engraved French and Indian War Period Powder Horn, dated 1756, large powder horn with engraved cartouche: "LAKE GEORGE AUGUST/CHARLS BARRON HIS HOR/LEFT JONATHAN BARON 1756," with decoration outside of the cartouche including several compass-drawn circles with crosshatch and floral forms, and leaf and flower devices; having a recessed throat with two raised rings and sawtooth border, ending with a flat fitted pine butt plug with later inscription "ADS 1822," (minor chips and cracks on butt edge),lg. approx. 16 3/4 in.

Provenance: Bill Guthman to John Baldwin to Jason Baldwin, and then to consignor.

Note: This powder horn is accompanied by two letters. The first, a typewritten letter of correspondence dated 10/29/98 from Bill Guthman to Jason Baldwin. It relates how Bill was unable to find Charles or Jonathan Barron in any of his roster books and goes on about the quality and style of the engraving. Lastly he states, "Your horn obviously was left to Jonathan from Charles..."

The second letter is a letter of authentication of the horn dated July 29, 2005, by Jim Dresslar, author of The Engraved Powder Horn, 1996. The letter notes, "The inscription is contained inside a cartouche with the word "LEFT" carved outside this cartouche, possibly added at a later time. We can only assume that with two names carved on the horn at the same time, maybe this was a shared horn, then eventually it was left to Jonathan."



Estimate $5,000-7,000

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